social networking sites and street snippets

A year ago if you'd ask me I'd tell you I wasn't too keen on putting much more of me, past my photos, on the internet. Things have changed!

I'm learning social networking sites can be a great place to share work and connect with others and for a photographer that can be a really great thing!!

I've had a flickr for a while now but over the past few months I've slowly made my way through different sites, setting up my facebook, twitter, youtube, and blogspot. I've learned a lot of interesting things about how to work the net and am meeting a lot of cool people on the way! I'm slowly getting comfortable in the social net seas and yet I realized I've been neglecting tumblr.
I've seen some really cool tumblr accounts lately and it has inspired me!

Tonight (or this morning rather) I'm bravely venturing into tumblr territory.

As I spent some time today organizing my photo libraries, I came across a lot of older photos that I never really took any notice of and it gave me an idea...!

Classic Black and White street photography is a big love of mine and I've decided to dedicate my tumblr to it!

I thought tumblr would be a great place to share some of the street snippets I come across and so Everyday I am going to aim to post one candid street photo I've taken (whether new or old) and share them with you! I'll try my hardest to keep it up, and if I don't manage to post a new photo everyday, I promise I'll compensate with TWO the next day (or cupcakes if all else fails).

So here's to my experimental tumbling time!
Let me know how I do and if you have any suggestions!

Lots of Love.

Newly Tumbling,

Maayan Z

p.s. I've already posted my first photo! check it out here on my new tumblr!! (its the only place you can!)

Body PAINT!

If you've been following my work on flickr you'll know I recently did a BodyPainting shoot! That looks like this:



I've got to say, this has been one of my favourite shoots yet! It was a lot of fun to put together and we all had a blast painting the lovely subject Maaor Ziv (name resemblance? yes. she's my sister!).

We started out all proper, with sponge and brush work but after a couple minutes, we soon realized that this was an awesome opportunity to practice our finger painting skills! There were rubbing painty hands all over her. Check it out:



What you wont see on Flickr are these shots from the bathtub!!! Dirty and oh so gritty. I. Love. Grit. Enjoy!











Black water = photo-op! (just proves you should never put your camera away till you've left the site!)

And don't worry, the bathtub is squeaky clean now! (nothing a little bleach can't fix!)

Okay that's all for now! I've got another film shoot this weekend at my studio. Hopefully I'll get some good behind-the-scenes to post up!


Bye for now!

Maayan Z